Some of you will know I have a Blingo Multispace for the wife and 2+ bump kids (another girl if todays scan is to be believed).
Anyway I bought the Bling off one of the clinics I worked at who used it for 3 years as their "on call" car. Its done 49K with a full Citroen Service History and was very well looked after mechanically (it had to be as there was a lot of specialist equipment hard wired into the car and so it could not afford to be off the road).

Anyway one of the Doctors said when I bought it he always thougt it was a bit thirsty -I was expecting it to be more thirsty than the Xantia we got shot of owing to it having the aerodynamics of a chicken coop, however my last tank gave me just 32.5 MPG, and it has never managed more than 40MPG. For a Diesel this is truly bloody awful. A full tank will give 400 miles.

It does not smoke, is driven gently in mixed driving and the tickover is about 700 RPM. It has a new K & N air filter, and just had an oil & filter change, no none of the brakes are binding Mr. B

My Similar engined Mk1 Bling wasn't much better TBH, never much more than early 40's. Even managed to get it down to 28mpg on the way back from Alicantie a few years ago, I was going for it though with the A/C on full chat.

Problem is, these things ain't the most aerodynamic so you are never going to get Xantia type economy but I would have thought it should do a bit better. What does Our Leader get from his?

I had a 2.0 HDi multispace I used for courier work (new about 2 years ago) - so loaded sometimes with only an envelope one way and empty the other and it did around 52 mpg over about 20k miles, mostly motorway and not over 75 mph - with the aerodynamics of a breeze block you need to keep the speed down, but my mate never managed over 42 mpg in his 1.9D van on the same type of work.

I had heard that these 2.0 hdi engines arent that great on fuel, the latest 1.6 version is apparently quite a bit better on the juice. I think everyone has covered the aerodynamic issues with blingo, that certainly cant help.

Just a thought, it doesnt have roof rails on it does it? if it does take em off as this is extra drag which can affect it quite badly.

On the subject of roof bars my BX roofbars with just a pair of oars strapped onto them reduced the top speed of my old TD/GTI by between ten and fifteen MPH, heaven only knows what the jumbo roofbox does.
Stewart

Well Marty there you have it, the boost gauge on the BX often tells an interesting tale, unladen 85mph indicated on the flat usually pulls about 7psi, add my roofbox, the car performs almost the same but at that speed is now pulling anywhere between 11 and 13 psi, oh and trucks getting blown over behind it is a bit of a giveaway too
Stewart